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1928–2003
Hoover John Wright Sr. (July 23, 1928 – March 7, 2003) was an American football and track and field coach. He served as the head football coach at Paul Quinn College in Paul Quinn College from 1955 to 1960 and two stints at the head football coach at…
1964–
Horace Randall Broadnax (born March 22, 1964) is an American college basketball coach. He was most recently the head men's basketball coach at Savannah State University. He was born in Plant City, Florida.
1935–2009
Dr. Horace Clarence Boyer (July 28, 1935 – July 21, 2009) was one of the foremost scholars in African-American gospel music.
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Horace Mann Bond (November 8, 1904 – December 21, 1972) was an American historian, college administrator, social science researcher and the father of civil-rights leader Julian Bond. He earned graduate and doctoral degrees from University of Chicago at a…
1944–
Horace Mitchell is an African-American academic administrator and psychologist. He was the 4th president of California State University, Bakersfield.
1961–
Horace G. “Pappy” Owens (born October 9, 1961) is an American basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Delaware State Hornets men's team. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he played for Dobbins Technical High School and was a…
1955–
Horace Reid (born June 14, 1955) is an American former professional tennis player. Raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Reid won two State AAA singles championships while a Washington High School student. He ranked 10th in the U.S. for the 14s age division and was…
1922–2002
Horace Edward Tate (1922 – November 28, 2002) was an American educator, activist, scholar, and politician who spent most of his life and career working toward educational equity for Black Americans, particularly in the south. A Democrat, he served in the…
1927–2016
Horace Taliaferro Ward (July 29, 1927 – April 23, 2016) was a lawyer, state legislator, and judge in Georgia. He challenged the racially discriminatory practices at the University of Georgia School of Law and was the first African American to serve as a…
1930–1974
Horatio Theodore Strother (February 1, 1930 – September 14, 1974) was an American historian and educator who wrote an influential 1962 book on the Underground Railroad in Connecticut. His teaching career culminated in a professorship at the University of…
1927–2017
Hornsby Howell (September 3, 1927 – October 3, 2017) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at North Carolina A&T University from 1968 to 1976, compiling a record of 55–34–4. In 1982, he was a scout team assistant…
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Hortense King McClinton (born August 27, 1918) is an American retired professor of social work. She became the first Black faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1966.
1859–1938
Hortense Parker Gilliam, born Hortense Parker (1859–1938), was the first known African-American graduate of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, in 1883. She taught music and piano at elementary school in Kansas City, Missouri from 1906 to 1913. That year she…
1920–2011
Hosea T. Lockard (June 24, 1920 - December 12, 2011) was an African-American Criminal Court Judge in the U.S. State of Tennessee for Shelby County. He was born in Ripley, Tennessee, and was raised on a farm in the nearby town of Henning by Albert and…
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Hosken Powell (May 14, 1955 – June 27, 2025) was an American professional baseball player. He played from 1978 to 1983 for the Minnesota Twins and Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB). An outfielder, he threw and batted left-handed, stood 6…
1943–
Houston Alfred Baker Jr. (born March 22, 1943), an American scholar specializing in African-American literature, is Professor Emeritus Distinguished University Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Baker served as president of the Modern Language…
1857–1920
Houston A.P. (Pat) Bassett (March 14, 1857 – July 17, 1920) was an African-American Republican politician who served in the Twentieth Texas Legislature. The son of poor farmers, Bassett lived in his native Grimes County, Texas, for most of his life. He was…
1944–2019
Houston Markham Jr. (c. 1944 – July 17, 2019) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Alabama State University from 1987 to 1997, compiling a record of 69–47–4. His 1991 squad was named the black college football…
1963–
Howard Antony (born 19 April 1963) is a British actor, best known for playing the role of Alan Jackson, in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 1993 to 1997 and briefly again in 2010. He left EastEnders and went on to become a drama teacher in Tomhood school…
1921–1995
Howard Cornelius Gentry Sr. (April 15, 1921 – February 14, 1995) was an American college football coach. He was the 12th head football coach at Tennessee A&I State College—now known as Tennessee State University—in Nashville, Tennessee, serving for six…
1871–1945
Howard E. Young (March 12, 1871 – October 3, 1945), was the first African American licensed as a pharmacist in Maryland. Young was born in Baltimore to Reverend Alfred and Emma J. Young. He was educated at M Street High School in Washington, D.C., then he…
1965–
Howard Anthony Feggins (born May 6, 1965) is an American college football coach and former player. He is the special teams coordinator and running backs coach for Hampton University, a position he has held since 2024. He was the head football coach for St.…
1913–2012
Howard Holman Bell (March 13, 1913 – January 14, 2012) was a scholar of African American history. His book Minutes of the Proceedings of the National Negro Conventions, 1830-1864 was published in 1969. He wrote an introduction to the 1970 edition of Black…
1901–1987
Howard Hamilton Mackey Sr., (1901–1987), was an American architect, painter, educator, and academic administrator. For 50 years he worked at Howard University, from 1924 until 1973; including serving as the department head, and associate dean.
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